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English: A silver penny of Edmund I, one of the Saxon coins decorating the margin of Moll's map of Cambridgeshire, sold separately and as Map 23 in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales..., copied from Figure 29 of Tabula II Nummi Saxonici on Page 139 of Obadiah Walker's "Notes on the Saxon Coins" appended to the English translation of William Camden's Britannica.

Notes:
Obverse: +EADMYND REX [intending EADMVND REX, Eadmund Rex, King Edmund]
Reverse: + EADI,⅄RII·II·RÐFT [probably intending EADGAR MO or ON NRÐǷC, Eadgar Moneta or on Norðwic, Minted by Edger at Norwich] (1)
Walker's note states " 29. The twenty-ninth is King Edmund, brother, and not inferior either in valour or counsel, to Ethelstan. He pursued the design of reducing all his subjects to perfect unity and peace, by extirpating those rebellious irreconcileable enemies, the Danes. In the beginning of his reign, he cleared Mercia of them. For King Edward, seeing the kingdom so much depopulated by those destructive wars, ever since the entrance of the Danes; upon promise and oath of fealty and obedience, (as his father also had done amongst the East Angles) permitted these Danes to live amongst his natural subjects; and chiefly in the great towns: thinking, because of their profession of arms and soldiery, they would better defend them than the Saxons, more industrious and skilful in labour and husbandry. The Danes also having been themselves beaten and conquered by him, were very ready to engage to obedience, peace, and loyalty. But the Saxons by their labours growing rich, and the Danes retaining their former tyrannical and lazy dispositions, began to oppress and domineer over the natives. Edmund therefore, after Mercia, began to reduce Northumberland, where remained the greatest number of them, (for Edward himself had suppressed those in East Anglia;) and to reduce those northern counties into the form of provinces: and committed Cumberland (as a feud) to Malcolm King of Scotland. His zeal for justice cost this heroical prince his life. For celebrating the festival of St. Austin, and giving thanks for the conversion of the nation; he spied amongst the guests one Leof, a notable thief, whom he had before banished. The King's spirit was so moved against him, that rising from the table, he seized upon him, threw him to the ground, and was about to do some violence unto him. The thief fearing what he had deserved, with a short dagger, which he concealed, wounded the King mortally, who died in a short time, to the very great grief and affliction of his people. The reverse is very imperfect; but it may perhaps be Edward moneta Theodford, or rather Eadmund martyr, to whose church he gave the town called St. Edmund's-bury."

London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux-Court in the Strand; Tho. Bowles, Print and Map-Seller near the Chapter-House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Bowles Print and Map-Seller over-against Stocks-Market. 1724.